What are some of the political
reforms and public policies advocated by socialists and their allies on
the road to full socialism?

Consider what a top socialist
leader advocated in 1922:

WE DEMAND
THAT THE GOVERNMENT UNDERTAKE THE OBLIGATION ABOVE ALL OF PROVIDING CITIZENS
WITH ADEQUATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYMENT AND EARNING A LIVING.

THE ACTIVITIES OF
THE INDIVIDUAL MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO CLASH WITH THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY,
BUT MUST TAKE PLACE WITHIN ITS CONFINES AND BE FOR THE GOOD OF ALL ...

WE DEMAND THE NATIONALIZATION
OF ALL BUSINESSES WHICH HAVE BEEN AMALGAMATED (INTO TRUSTS).

WE DEMAND THAT THE
STATE SHALL SHARE IN THE PFOFITS OF LARGE INDUSTRIES.

WE DEMAND THAT PROVISION
FOR THE AGED SHALL BE MADE ON A VERY GREATLY INCREASED SCALE.

WE DEMAND A LAND-REFORM
SUITABLE TO OUR NATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, THE PASSING OF A LAW FOR THE CONFISCATION
OF LAND FOR COMMUNAL PURPOSES; THE ABOLITION OF INTEREST ON MORTGAGES,
AND PROHIBITION OF ALL SPECULATION IN LAND.

WE DEMAND AN AGRARIAN
REFORM SUITABLE TO OUR NATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; THE ENACTMENT OF A LAW TO
EXPROPRIATE WITHOUT COMPENSATION THE OWNERS OF ANY LAND THAT MAY BE NEEDED
FOR NATIONAL PURPOSES; THE ABOLITION OF GROUND RENTS; AND THE PROHIBITION
OF ALL SPECULATION IN LAND.

...THE STATE SHALL
ORGANIZE THOROUGHLY THE WHOLE CULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE NATION . . . THE CONCEPTION
OF THE STATE IDEA (THE SCIENCE OF CITIZENSHIP) SHALL BE TAUGHT IN THE SCHOOLS
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. WE DEMAND THAT SPECIALLY TALENTED CHILDREN
OF POOR PARENTS, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR STATION OR OCCUPATION, SHALL BE EDUCATED
AT THE COST OF THE STATE.

IT IS THE DUTY OF
THE STATE TO HELP RAISE THE STANDARD OF THE NATION'S HEALTH BY PROVIDING
MATERNITY WELFARE CENTRES, BY PROHIBITING JUVENILE LABOUR, BY INCREASING
PHYSICAL FITNESS THROUGH THE INTRODUCTION OF COMPULSORY GAMES AND GYMNASTICS.
. . .

(WE) COMBAT THE MATERIALISTIC
SPIRIT WITHIN AND OUTSIDE US, AND ARE CONVINCED THAT A PERMANENT RECOVERY
OF OUR PEOPLE CAN ONLY PROCEED WITHIN ON THE FOUNDATION OF "THE COMMON
GOOD BEFORE THE INDIVIDUAL GOOD."

-- From the "Twenty-Five Point" Programme of the German National Socialist
Workers Party, authored by Adolf Hitler and others on February 24, 1920.
(Konrad Heiden's translation in A History of National Socialism)

SOCIALIST HEROES AND LUMINARIES

Politicians such
as Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, and Al Gore were not the first
to push for socialistic national health care schemes, political controls
on wages and prices, and land grabs in the name of the "national good"
or a phony "environmentalism";far too many want to
solve real or imagined problems by using government meddling (up to and
including totalitarian tyranny) in peoples' lives and in their businesses.
The consequences have been tragic.

Anytime you give to government the responsibility
and authority to provide government-made jobs, old-age financial security,
"free" health care, and "free" education and indoctrination of children,
it will control the lives of the people who live under its jurisdiction,
and individual liberty and freedom of choice are sacrificed.

Sure, security is important -- but anyone
can find security from a prison warden. But, despite socialist promises,
bureaucratic programs of the poltiical state cannot guarantee security
anyway. Instead the socialist state uses its coercive powers to seize
the wealth and properties of those who have earned financial security by
their own hands. Socialism does not help poor people; rather, socialism
makes people poor so that they have to become dependent on the socialist
state and therefore beholden to those in charge of the government.
Socialism is the ultimate exploitative monopoly. No competitors (market
alternatives) are allowed. All major industries, including food,
banking, transportation, communication, and insurance are owned and operated
as state monopolies.

Socialism is a system of authoritarian
political control over the individual by bureaucratic central planners
-- very similar to fascism or communism. Socialism promises to use
the power of the political state to forcibly redistribute resources (peoples'
earnings) so that the basic needs of all will be met. To do this,
power must be centralized in the hands of the political state. When
government has power over the lives and properties of its citizens, the
citizens have no freedom -- only the meagre privileges the state programs
may dole out to them. In practice, socialism's redistribution of
wealth ends up with bureaucrats doling out poverty and dependency on the
state.

If government could give you everything
you want, it must have the power to take everything you've got. This
is the real agenda of socialism. It is the confiscation of property
in the name of a "fairer" distribution of it. It is the total political
institutionalization of violence and exploitation in the name of abolishing
exploitation.

Sure, there are several different brands
of socialism -- at least as many types as there are would-be people-planners
who wish to impose their plans to control the moral and economic lives
of other people. But are you willing to surrender your precious liberties
to a Socialist State which promises "security" for everyone or government-enforced
equality? Isn't this what Hitler and other socialists promised the
German people in his Nazi (national socialist) platform -- a country in
which government guarantees security and "equality" in exchange for giving
up individual freedom? Will Americans continue to fall for the same
scam?

Socialism is an old dream.
Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.